For you created my
inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was
made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the
earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body
all the days ordained for the me were written in your book before one of them
came to be.
Psalm
139: 13-16
Every
day I do what I think I’m supposed to
do. Hurry, hurry, hurry – don’t be
late!!! Take care of your family and your home, go to work, prepare Sunday
School lessons, pray for my family, my church, my friends, others, pray for my
children and families in therapy at work, someone needs a pie! But wait, what
about that “quiet time” for me to be still and wait on the Lord, listening for
exactly what He wants me to do? Who is He directing me towards? Where does He want me to go? My “to do” list is out of order! I fail and I know I fail; then after so much
negativity I even think there is absolutely NO way He wants any part of
me. I fail so many people but it’s my
failure to my Lord and Savior that is heartbreaking. As a “mature” person, I have experienced this
too much, wasting so much joy with the Lord! This scripture reminds me how very
much He loves me because He created me just as I am. He wants the first place in my life and
heart. He wants first place in your life
and wants you to love him best of all!
He knows our strengths and our weaknesses because He created us and we
are “fearfully and wonderfully made!”
(He knows we will have weak moments but He is faithful and just and will
forgive our sins and will purify us from any unrighteousness.) All we have to do is just confess our sin and
move into our relationship with our Lord. (1John 1:9) As far as the east is from the west does He
forget our sins and remember them no more!
I want each one of us to remember Oh
how He loves you and me!
Abba
Father,
Thank
you for your Word and for loving us so much that you even your sacrificed your
Son for us. My prayer is for your people
at St. Paul to understand there is peace even in “the events of life” and to
stop wasting precious time. Thank you Lord.
In Jesus Name, Amen.
Remember,
there is no testimony without a test! (not my original thought – unnamed from
my prayer journal).
